Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to your use of the website of LMC Mobility ("Ascend Stairlifts"). It also applies to Ascend Stairlifts provision of products and services to you and/or where you generally provide us with personal information.

This privacy policy explains how we, LMC Mobility Services Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales under number 08540911, whose registered office is at White Rose Farm, Potterspury Lodge, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 7LL collect, share and use your personal information.

Our commitment to you.

The protection of your personal information is important to us. We respect your privacy and want you to understand what we do with the information that we hold about you.

Generally, you can browse through our website without giving us any information about yourself (including your email address).

When we do need your personal information to provide services that you request or when you choose to provide us with your personal information, whether in connection with a contract with us for services or otherwise through your interaction with us, this policy describes how we collect and use your personal information. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

What personal data do we collect

We may collect the following personal information from you when you use Ascend Stairlifts products or services:

Contact details – Information that enables us to contact you directly, such as your name, email address, telephone number and addresses.
Transaction information – Details of the Ascend Stairlifts products and services that you purchase from us, including service plans.
Payment information – Debit card details and/or bank account details that you provide in order to make payment for any Ascend Stairlifts products and/or services that you purchase from us.
Installation and service history information – Details relating to the installation of Ascend Stairlifts products at your home or property and in relation to the servicing of that product.
Product use information – Information about how you are using Ascend Stairlifts products in your home and the performance of those products.
Location information – Information about the exact location of your Ascend Stairlifts product. We may also collect information about the location of your mobile device, for instance if your mobile device connects to your Ascend Stairlifts product.

You are not required to provide any of the personal information set out above to us although if you do not do so, the functionality of your Stairlifts product may be reduced.

Sources of personal information

We will collect personal information from various sources, including:

From you;
From our website;

Use of information we collect

We will use your personal information and device information for several general purposes including:

Supplying and delivering products and services, including installation and servicing to you;
Administering our contracts with you;
Answering your queries or complaints, or fulfilling any requests for information or services placed by you or your authorised contacts/persons;
Keeping you up to date with news about Ascend Stairlifts, our products and services.

Who we share your personal information with

We do not forward your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We share personal information with installers and service engineers so that they can provide you with installation and product maintenance services.

We will share personal information with the Government or regulators, where we are required to do so by law or to assist with their investigations, and with the Police to assist with the investigation and prevention of crime.

Personal information may be transferred to and stored in countries outside the European Economic Area. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is only used in accordance with this privacy policy and is kept secure. Personal information will not be sold or transferred to other unaffiliated third parties without your prior consent.

Where any personal information is processed by us, we will comply with relevant Data Protection legislation at all times.

Legal basis for the processing of personal information

We collect and use customers’ personal information where it is necessary for: -

the pursuit of our ‘Legitimate Interests’
the performance of a contract or complying with other legal obligations.

Our Legitimate Interests:

Operating Ascend Stairlifts’ business of selling and supplying products and services to our customers
Promoting, marketing and advertising our products and services
Handling customers contacts, queries, complaints or disputes

Where you have given your consent for us to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Retention

We will keep your information for as long as you maintain an account with us. After you close your account with us, we will keep your personal information for a reasonable period to maintain our records and fulfil our legal obligations to you.

We may also retain your information if required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse or enforce Terms and Conditions. Information may be retained for these purposes even after you have closed your account with us or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.

Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process information after consent is withdrawn.

Cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Your rights in relation to your personal information

As a data subject whose personal information we hold, you have certain rights. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email privacy@acornstairlifts.com or use the information supplied in the Contact us section below.

Your rights are as follows:

The right to be informed
We are obliged to provide clear and transparent information about how your personal information is being used. This is provided by this privacy policy and any related communications we may send you.

The right of access
You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you free of charge. Once we have verified your identity and, if relevant, the authority of any third-party requestor, we will provide access to the personal information we hold about you as well as the following information:

a) The purposes of the processing
b) The categories of personal data concerned
c) The recipients to whom the personal data has been disclosed
d) The retention period or envisioned retention period for that personal data information

The right to rectification
When you believe we hold inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you, you may exercise your right to correct or complete this information. This may be used with the right to restrict processing to make sure that incorrect/incomplete information is not processed until it is corrected.

The right to erasure (the ‘right to be forgotten’)
Where no overriding legal basis or legitimate reason continues to exist for processing personal information, you may request that we delete the personal information. This includes personal information that may have been unlawfully processed. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure erasure.

The right to restrict processing
You may ask us to stop processing your personal information. We will still hold the information, but will not process it any further. This right is an alternative to the right to erasure. If one of the following conditions applies you may exercise the right to restrict processing:

a) The accuracy of the personal information is contested
b) Processing of the personal information is unlawful
c) We no longer need the personal information for processing but the personal information is required for part of a legal process
d) The right to object has been exercised and processing is restricted pending a decision on the status of the processing

The right to data portability
You may request your set of personal information be transferred to another controller or processor, provided in a commonly used and machine-readable format. This right is only available if the original processing was on the basis of consent, the processing is by automated means and if the processing is based on the fulfilment of a contractual obligation.

The right to object
You have the right to object to our processing of your information where

Processing is based on legitimate interest;
Processing is for the purpose of direct marketing;
Processing is for the purposes of scientific or historic research;
Processing involves automated decision-making and profiling.

Changes to this policy

We may change this privacy notice from time to time. When such a change is made we will post a revised version on the website. Your continued use of the website will indicate your agreement to any such change.

Contact

If you have any further enquiries or concerns about our privacy notice or wish us to remove you from our system please email us at privacy@acornstairlifts.com or write to White Rose Farm, Potterspury Lodge, Towcester,

Northamptonshire, NN12 7LL.

Complaints

Should you wish to discuss a complaint, please feel free to contact us using the details provided above. All complaints will be treated in a confidential manner.

Should you feel unsatisfied with our handling of your information, or about any complaint that you have made to us about our handling of your information, you are entitled to escalate your complaint to a supervisory authority within the European Union. For the United Kingdom, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), who is also our lead supervisory authority. Its contact information can be found at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.